Hunter (Midnight Suns) 5*****

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ABILITIES

Ability: Unity Collar
Color: Purple
AP Cost: 7

The Hunter focuses her thoughts, driving them down a single path. Choose Light or Dark. Drain friendly blue AP, providing 1 point of the selected type for each 2 AP drained (max 6). Gaining Light Points consumes Dark Points, or vice versa.

(PASSIVE) If The Hunter has 4 or more Light Points, this ability becomes Bladestorm. If The Hunter has 4 or more Dark Points, this ability becomes Annihilation. Inspire’s passive is always unlocked and active.

450: No Change.
550: No Change.

Level 2: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 3: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 4: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 5: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.

Ability: Bladestorm
Color: Purple
AP Cost: 7

The Hunter wades into the enemy team, blades flashing faster than sight. Deals 886 damage to the enemy team, destroying random enemy AP for each Light Point. Light Points are then reduced to 0 and this ability becomes Unity Collar.

450: Deals 3561 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 7696 damage to the enemy team.

Level 2: Deals 975 damage to the enemy team.
450: Deals 3917 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 8466 damage to the enemy team.
Level 3: Deals 1063 damage to the enemy team.
450: Deals 4273 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 9235 damage to the enemy team.
Level 4: Deals 1240 damage to the enemy team.
450: Deals 4985 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 10774 damage to the enemy team.
Level 5: Deals 1595 damage to the enemy team.
450: Deals 6410 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 13853 damage to the enemy team.

Ability: Annihilation
Color: Purple
AP Cost: 7

The Hunter channels their dark forces, sending out a blast of energy in the midst of her foes. Deals 487 damage to the enemy team, plus 266 per Dark Point The Hunter has. Dark Points are reduced to 0 and her ability becomes Unity Collar.

450: Deals 1959 damage to the enemy team, plus 1068 per Dark Point.
550: Deals 4233 damage to the enemy team, plus 2309 per Dark Point.

Level 2: Deals 575 damage to the enemy team, plus 266 per Dark Point.
450: Deals 2312 damage to the enemy team, plus 1068 per Dark Point.
550: Deals 4995 damage to the enemy team, plus 2903 per Dark Point.
Level 3: Deals 662 damage to the enemy team, plus 266 per Dark Point.
450: Deals 2664 damage to the enemy team, plus 1068 per Dark Point.
550: Deals 5757 damage to the enemy team, plus 2309 per Dark Point.
Level 4: Deals 886 damage to the enemy team, plus 266 per Dark Point.
450: Deals 3565 damage to the enemy team, plus 1068 per Dark Point.
550: Deals 7704 damage to the enemy team, plus 2309 per Dark Point.
Level 5: Deals 1105 damage to the enemy team.
450: Deals 4447 damage to the enemy team.
550: Deals 9609 damage to the enemy team.

Ability: Slash
Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 5

The Hunter delivers a savage slash with her blades. Deals 2 strikes of 930 damage.

(PASSIVE) If The Hunter has 2 or more Light Points, this ability becomes Quick Slash. If The Hunter has 2 or more Dark Points, this ability becomes Merciless Slash. Inspire’s passive is always unlocked and active.

450: Damage per slash increased to 3739.
550: Damage per slash increased to 8081.

Level 2: Damage per slash increased to 1023.
450: Damage per slash increased to 4113.
550: Damage per slash increased to 8889.
Level 3: Damage per slash increased to 1153.
450: Damage per slash increased to 4636.
550: Damage per slash increased to 10020.
Level 4: Damage per slash increased to 1330.
450: Damage per slash increased to 5347.
550: Damage per slash increased to 11556..
Level 5: Damage per slash increased to 1683.
450: Damage per slash increased to 6768.
550: Damage per slash increased to 14627.

Ability: Quick Slash
Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 8

The Hunter dashes in and away from her target with a blindingly fast surgical strike. Deals 2 strikes of 620 damage and gains 1 Light Point. Costs 1 AP less for each Light Point the Hunter has.

If The Hunter has 0 Light Points, this ability becomes Slash. If The Hunter has 1 or more Dark Points, this ability becomes Merciless Slash.

450: Damage per slash increased to 2493.
550: Damage per slash increased to 5388.

Level 2: Damage per slash increased to 663.
450: Damage per slash increased to 2668.
550: Damage per slash increased to 5765.
Level 3: Damage per slash increased to 750.
450: Damage per slash increased to 3017.
550: Damage per slash increased to 6519.
Level 4: Damage per slash increased to 843.
450: Damage per slash increased to 3390.
550: Damage per slash increased to 7328.
Level 5: Damage per slash increased to 1110.
450: Damage per slash increased to 4462.
550: Damage per slash increased to 9645.

Ability: Merciless Slash
Color: Yellow
AP Cost: 8

The Hunter charges her target, going in for a grievous wound. Deals 2 strikes of 354 permanent damage, Stun the target for 1 turn for every 3 Dark Point(s) the Hunter has. Then, gain 1 Dark Point.

If The Hunter has 0 Dark Points, this ability becomes Slash. If the Hunter has 1 or more Light Points, this ability becomes Quick Slash.

450: Deals 2 strikes of 1424 permanent damage.
550: Deals 2 strikes of 3079 permanent damage.

Level 2: Deals 2 strikes of 443 permanent damage.
450: Deals 2 strikes of 1780 permanent damage.
550: Deals 2 strikes of 3849 permanent damage.
Level 3: Deals 2 strikes of 577 permanent damage.
450: Deals 2 strikes of 2321 permanent damage.
550: Deals 2 strikes of 5019 permanent damage.
Level 4: Deals 2 strikes of 885 permanent damage.
450: Deals 2 strikes of 3560 permanent damage.
550: Deals 2 strikes of 7698 permanent damage.
Level 5: Deals 2 strikes of 1108 permanent damage, Stun the target for 1 turn for every 2 Dark Point(s) the Hunter has.
450: Deals 2 strikes of 4457 permanent damage, Stun the target for 1 turn for every 2 Dark Point(s) the Hunter has.
550: Deals 2 strikes of 9637 permanent damage, Stun the target for 1 turn for every 2 Dark Point(s) the Hunter has.

Ability: Inspire
Color: Black
AP Cost: 3

The Hunter leads from the front, inspiring her allies to ever higher levels. Creates a 3-Turn Inspire Countdown tile. While this tile is on the board: all friendly match damage is increased by 90%.

If The Hunter has 2 or more Light Points, this ability becomes Heal. If The Hunter has 2 or more Dark Points, this ability becomes Dark Heal.

(PASSIVE) Friendly Yellow or Blue matches grant 1 Light Point (max 6). Friendly Black or Purple matches grant 1 Dark Point (max 6). Gaining Light Points consumes Dark Points, or vice versa.

450: No Change.
550: No Change.

Level 2: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 3: No Change.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 4: Creates a 4-turn tile.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.
Level 5: Creates a 5-turn tile.
450: No Change.
550: No Change.

Ability: Heal
Color: Black
AP Cost: 6

The Hunter focuses her energies to heal a teammate. Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 1462 Health, plus 443 health for every Light Point.

If The Hunter has 0 Light Points, this ability becomes Inspire. If The Hunter has 1 or more Dark Points, this ability becomes Dark Heal.

450: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 5876 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 12699 health.

Level 2: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 1550 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 6229 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 13461 health.
Level 3: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 1637 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 6581 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 14223 health.
Level 4: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 1725 health, plus 886 health for every Light Point.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 6943 health, plus 3562 health for every Light Point.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 14985 health, plus 7696 health for every Light Point.
Level 5: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 2310 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 9284 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for a burst of 20064 health.

Ability: Dark Heal
Color: Black
AP Cost: 5

The Hunter uses her own life essence, drawing pain and damage to herself to heal a teammate. Choose a teammate and heal them for 2436 health, but lose 2200 health. The heal is increased, and the damage taken is decreased, by 10% for each Dark Point.

If The Hunter has 0 Dark Points, this ability becomes Inspire. If The Hunter has 1 or more Light Points, this ability becomes Heal.

450: Choose a teammate and heal them for 9793 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for 21165 health.

Level 2: Choose a teammate and heal them for 2655 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for 10674 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for 23070 health.
Level 3: Choose a teammate and heal them for 2874 health, but losing 1980 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for 11556 health, but losing 8010 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for 24975 health, but losing 17325 health.
Level 4: Choose a teammate and heal them for 3094 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for 12437 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for 26880 health.
Level 5: Choose a teammate and heal them for 3532 health, but losing 1540 health.
450: Choose a teammate and heal them for 14200 health, but losing 6230 health.
550: Choose a teammate and heal them for 30689 health, but losing 13475 health.

Release Schedule

All times in Pacific

Release Events

Story

Strange Sights
December 14, 2023, 04:00am – December 17, 2023, 11:00pm
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Shards and Event Token in Placement Rewards
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Event Token in Progression Rewards and Alliance Rewards

Unstable ISO-8
December 17, 2023, 04:00am – December 21, 2023, 11:00pm
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Cosmic Chaos
December 21, 04:00am – December 25, 2023, 11:00pm
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Legendary Token in Placement Rewards, Shards and Event Token in Progression Rewards, Legendary Token and Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Versus

Learning The Ropes
December 14, 2023, 05:00pm – December 18, 2023, 12:00am
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Shards in Placement Rewards, Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Masterclass Hunter
December 17, 2023, 05:00am – December 20, 2023, 12:00pm
The Hunter (Midnight Suns) Event Token in Progression Rewards, Event Token in Alliance Rewards

Offers

Destruction of Dracula Store
December 14, 2023, 04:00am – December 18, 2023, 11:00pm
Chance to get The Hunter (Midnight Suns). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

Daughter of Lilith Vault
December 21, 2023, 09:00am - December 24, 2023, 09:00pm
Chance to get The Hunter (Midnight Suns). Increased chances in 10x and 40x pulls

40 Items:
○ 1x The Midnight Son Legendary Store Token
○ 1x 4-Star Morbius (The Living Vampire) cover
○ 3x Random 3-Star covers
○ 6x Heroic tokens
○ 4x 2500 Iso
○ 6x 1000 Iso
○ 5x 500 Iso
○ 14x Two stars

The Midnight Son Legendary Store
December 21, 2023, 09:00am - December 24, 2023, 09:00pm
15% chance to get 5* The Hunter (Midnight Suns), 5* Doctor Strange (Sorcerer Supreme) and 5* Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes)
Additional Tokens can be purchased for 25 Command Points

BlackBoltRocks

Nico Minoru feeds Hunter hmmm. Wonder how all those with ascended Nicos will feel about that.

Bowgentle

@BlackBoltRocks said:
Nico Minoru feeds Hunter hmmm. Wonder how all those with ascended Nicos will feel about that.

Not great but eh.

liminal_lad

@BlackBoltRocks said:
Nico Minoru feeds Hunter hmmm. Wonder how all those with ascended Nicos will feel about that.

We feel upset.

dianetics

Character looks mid, and the 3* actually looks better.
She has mid tier health at 72k, and only 3 basic affiliations.
Reminds me thematically like Mr Negative.
Nothing special here.

ThisisClemFandango

That's alot of words isn't it?

DeNappa

tfw the new character ability descriptions are a 10,000 character essay

(obviously inflated by listing them on all ability levels with min and max char level... but still...)

DAZ0273

A LOT of words. I feel like I could finish the game quicker than reading what her powers do.

Bowgentle

You guys REALLY love your words my god.
And after scrolling through all of that... Strange in her release store.
Because of course he is.

ThisisClemFandango

"So Clem what does this new character do?"
"I started to read the description then slowly lost my mind"

killahKlown

Are we getting double progression rewards? Cosmic Chaos and Unstable Iso8 both giving shards.

Borstock

I realize that it's next to impossible to create new powers these days, but holy wow is that a lot of text.

Bowgentle

@killahKlown said:
Are we getting double progression rewards? Cosmic Chaos and Unstable Iso8 both giving shards.

Half of the events are probably wrong again.

TheVulture

Hunter! A fine addition to the MPQniverse.

Power-wise I think it might have been better to simply copy & paste the 3* powers, but I like that even with the wall of text it will pretty intuitive in game what the Hunter is about.

bigjojo04

Need a phD in Rocket Science to be able to fully understand the capacity of what all her powers do.

MgoBlue51

At first glance... I'm not enthused. Yes, I actually read all 80,000 words. I have been wrong plenty of times trying to predict a character's usefulness, so there's a caveat. But overall, the numbers aren't great, the powers are... Odd, and outside of another rare 5 star stunner I can't even find a use. Unique light/dark points that can't be earned or used by anyone else, middling powers... Feels like wasp

Warbringa

I only hope this means we eventually get a 5* Dracula.

Seph1roth5

I know you guys have a "budget" for 5* powers, but I think you need to increase that, especially with ascended 4* being so much better. Most of the 5s this year have been very underwhelming.

Unity Collar:

• Why is it draining blue AP at a 2:1 ratio? You can already get light/dark pts through plain matches, this whole part just seems convoluted, bad, and unnecessary.

Bladestorm:

• Weak numbers, very low. 14k aoe damage for 7 purple and needing to prep light points beforehand at 550?

Annihilation: Can be more damage but also requires a ton of prep to hit decent levels

Slash:

• Cheap, but also very weak. When you finally champ a 5* and look at it's powers you want to go "wow now they're really badass." 2 hits of 6700 isn't that.

Quick Slash:

• Somehow even weaker than slash despite needing prep? There's no mention of it's cost being a minimum of 3, which I assume is a typo, otherwise it could cost 0 and obviously be insane. AT 3 ap it would be fairly good, but again, pile of work and you can't use her purple ever.

Merciless Slash:

• Permanent damage is garbage and always has been. Omega Red is the only one who doesn't suck at it, and it's largely irrelevant on his power, just a nice bonus when it triggers. Only time his (and to a lesser extent, crystal) perma damage matters is specifically fighting a pvp team with multiple revivers. Perma damage makes the actual numbers on the attack lower, and these are ALREADY very low. Again, at 450 doing 7k permanent damage after multiple turns of gathering AP and dark points is extremely unimpressive. I guess if you get 30 dark points a 10 turn stun is kind of neat, though if it's taking you that long to kill a team I don't know if 10 turns is enough. Is there a cap on light/dark pts btw?

Inspire:

• The first part is pretty neat. Cheap, nice buff, but quickly becomes UNUSABLE because it goes away when you gain 2 points.

Heal:

• Decent at 4+, but the way it's written, it sounds like if you make one black/purple match and gain a dark point, this power changes? What happens when you have 1 of each?

Dark Heal:

• Looks like real healing but again too complicated. Need to go through multiple steps to just get 15k healing at 450. Yeah it's (theoretically) true healing, but Hunter's way too much work to be used as a health pack on a stick.

Release vault - Dr Strange, really? Might as well just have him have a chance of bonus shards in every CP vault at this point, make him like a MPQ mascot.

Like I said, the budget for 5*s really needs a revamp. 50-75% of the 5s have been relatively meh, where even their biggest defenders could only say "Well he's not bad when boosted" about them. I think a 450 Omega Red could do WAY more stunned for 4 turns than Hunter could do with 4 carefully planned and executed ones. I mean, Magik just does permanent damage on her own better, and that's still trash.

For Hunter not to be a complete waste some/a lot of her kit would have to be passive'd up, permanent damage completely removed/overhauled, damage numbers boosted, and maybe more. Hard to tell without knowing how some of the light/dark point stuff interacts. Is it going to be like Legion where you have little control over when the powers switch?

Maybe let us choose light/dark before the battle, ala Doop. It would mean far less text to read in battle and make things a lot simpler.

LavaManLee

I started reading and just had to scroll. WAYYYY too much going on. Will just wait for someone to tell me exactly what she does and best way to use her.

ThaRoadWarrior

My only complaint about this character is that it seems to be the nameless player character from the other video game Midnight Suns rather than any of the other yet to be included Marvel Midnight Sons comic characters. Danny Ketch (ghost rider), Johnny Blaze (no spirit of vengeance), Lilith (a different character than Dracula's daughter), and Blackout are probably the only "real" characters we don't have, but I'd settle for Meatmarket, Nakota, or Pilgrim lol.

DAZ0273

I'm still salty we never got Werewolf by Night or at least were rewarded with the Giant Sized Man Thing we all deserve.